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Washington this morning. thank you. i want to talk more about the search for flight 8501 with former inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation mary schiavo, i'm also joined by thomas altschuler the vice president of teledine marine system which is helps locate planes. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thomas i want to start with you because your company makes an underwater suv that might be used in this search. can you tell us more about that? >> so what we manufacture is an autonomous underwater vehicle that's very similar to the type of vehicle that w...

You on. >> good to be with you, jim. a high tech toolg in air france after it went missing. will side scan sonar find the flight. and people celebrating the new year's crushed in the city of shanghai. at least 35 people killed there. and new york police here ramping up security as more than a million people descend on time square. we're there live.

Of course the debris and the delicate task of rescuing bodies and that key of under water search. what special capability does the u.s. have? >> we're one of the navies that operated side scan sonar systems that can be deployed from ships or small boats an search a fairly small area. we're talking tens of square miles instead of hundreds of square miles. but the ability to find wreckage on the ocean floor, it is a fairly advanced system and also available commercially. so if the indonesians request that assistance we have it available. they may actually use commercial systems available locally...

You've been corg this with us over the past few days. let's get first to the headline numerous reports that sonar has detected what is believed to be the poddy of the plane on the bottom, about 100 feet down in the java sea. the ceo of airasia is saying that is not confirmed yet. he's being careful which is smart after the confusion after mh370 and saying we do not have that yet. earlier on the show jeff wigs said if they had a side scan done by sonar it would be very clear and there wouldn't be any am big dput. is it possible there is confusion or ambiguity? >> yes, and jeff depends on the fr...

Original plan was similar to what we're seeing now, except we hadn't invented these underwater autonomous vehicles like the bluefin. and the idea was the french had this wonderful deeply towed side scan that was developed mostly for geophysical exploration because bob ballard and his french colleagues were a bunch of geologists, and the idea was the french would map it out and cover a fairly large area. unfortunately for some reason, the story i heard as part of the team, was that they had early in their search seen something, but they thought the side scan wasn't quite functioning correctly. ...